Really. Matt Taibbi on Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat from an old issue of the New York Press. On an ideological level, Friedman’s new book is the worst, most boring kind of middlebrow horseshit. And this: On page 174, Friedman is describing a flight he took on Southwest Airlines from Baltimore to Hartford, Connecticut. [...]

Religious right wingnuts American Family Association are attempting to get the military to stop selling Playboy and Penthouse wherever fine reading material is sold on bases. By law, most skin mags can’t be sold in military stores. Playboy and Penthouse aren’t deemed scandalous enough to fall under those regulations, though. When I was in Air [...]

I don’t believe I’ve ever listened to the band The Thermals before, but I’m definitely going to have to now. As one story notes, “The Body, The Blood, The Machine,” the band’s third full-length, was produced by Fugazi‘s Brendan Canty, released by Sub Pop and tells the fictitious tale of a young couple attempting to [...]

What you missed if you didn’t read today’s The New York Times: In a story detailing problems with the Bush administration push for Medicare enrollees to utilize private plans for the new drug benefit comes this nugget: In March, Sierra Health Services ended drug coverage for more than 2,300 Medicare beneficiaries with H.I.V./AIDS, saying they [...]

The FBI-California Highway Patrol Joint Counter-terrorism Task Force has asked right-wing-nut David Horowitz‘s organization, the David Horowitz Freedom Center (pride is a sin, Dave), to provide them with a copy of their video, “What Every American Needs to Know About Jihad,” to train their officers. You can view the ridiculous video here. Then head over [...]

Be sure to watch Larry King Live tonight to be scared out of your wits. Or don’t. I won’t.

Well, I guess it worked (earlier post on the subject): Most of Alabama received rain during the first days of Gov. Bob Riley’s “Days of Prayer for Rain” — not enough to end the summer drought, but enough to start turning yards from brown to green. . . . “Any amount of rain is helpful [...]

I knew there was a reason I bitched every day for a year and a half until my family left Alabama and moved to Texas: With the state’s weather forecasters not delivering much-needed rain, Gov. Bob Riley on Thursday turned to a higher power. The governor issued a proclamation calling for a week of prayer [...]

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Buzz Patterson has a ridiculous “column” at National Review Online today. I put column in scare-quotes because the majority of it is a listing of blurbs from American soldiers blasting the anti-war left. Where do the quotes come from? Patterson’s new book, War Crimes: The Left’s Campaign to Destroy Our [...]